Pics From America... and North Korea Links/Book Suggestions...

I've been in Virginia for a week now and everything has been going well.  I keep forgetting to take pictures though, my bad!  I'll be out here for three more weeks.  Enjoy the few pics and please do check out the links and books on North Korea if you haven't before.

At Oakbrook Church's Men's Meeting... can you find me?  My Dad and I both got to share together and it was a blessed time...

With Simon, Sam, and Hoon at Solomon's wedding banquet

With Solomon and his fiance Josephine

With Esther and Paul

Some good books to read (there are others)...
 
Chol-Hwan Kang - Aquariums of Pyongyang  (a good introductory book to North Korea, the autiobiography of a North Korean who survived the prison camps and escaped the country)
 
Soon Ok Lee - Eyes of the Tailless Animals (the most vivid book about the prison camps in North Korea... this book will break your heart and is a must read for anyone desiring to pray for North Korea)
 
Mike Kim - Escaping North Korea (the most up to date book I've found and covers a lot)
 
Some good videos to watch (again, there are others)...
 
Children of the Secret State:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1875007335054132657&ei=Z0v4Ss7XDofCrQLOodgd&q=children+of+the+secret+state#
 
National Geographic Inside - Undercover in North Korea (Part 1 of 5):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQXfMMHV8FM
 
Inside North Korea:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5385077659281273870&ei=-0r4SszvC5HKqwKXnuznDg&q=inside+north+korea#
 
Movie - The Crossing (Part 1 of 10... this is a South Korea made movie based on the stories of different refugees who escaped North Korea, it is very realistic and well made):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhahvxABPGQ&feature=related

God bless!

In America

I just arrived on US soil a couple hours ago.  It feels really weird to be back, much more so than past visits.  I slept a solid 10 minutes during the 12 hour flight from Japan.  I enjoyed the movie Julia and Julie and then shook my head as I watched the demonic Harry Potter Half Blood Prince.  The movie had soul ties, curses/vows, demonic manifestations, cursed charms, spells, all sorts of occult activity.  I had been curious about that movie.   I won't be showing it to my kids.  Despite the long flight, this evening I'll be attending the Hillsong United "We're All In This Together" special showing with my family at the local movie theater.  Good stuff! 

Real quick, here is my schedule while I'm home...

November 7 (Sat) - Sharing with the Oakbrook Church Men's Ministry
November 8 (Sun) - Guest speaking at Oakbrook Church (http://www.oakbrookchurch.org/index.html)
November 11 (Wed) - Guest speaking at International Calvary Church's Wednesday night service (www.icc97.com)
November 15 (Sun) - Guest speaking at The Journey (http://thejourneysite.org/)
November 19 (Thurs) - Visiting my sister and supporters in Harrisonburg, VA
November 20-22 - Seminar speaker and elective session speaker at Servant's Retreat in Winchester, VA

I'll be departing on December 2.  My cell phone number is 703-930-4274. 

God bless!

Last Picture Update Before America Visit...

I'll be leaving for America on this Wednesday, November 4th.  I'll be there for four weeks.  I'll put up my schedule and contact info in a couple days.  For now, here is one more picture update before I go.  These pictures were all taken by 3rd grader Hae Hyun from Hope Room while I was playing Rummikub with Hae Ji...

Sun Hee played as my partner

Ji Woo with her toy phone

Soo Ah

Little Eun Suh

Her older sister Eun Ji

Hae Hyun taking pictures of herself... oh no...

A little better?

Oh well...

Sisters Eun Ji and Eun Suh

Not sure what Ji Woo is doing to Eun Ji

Sun Hee

One more of her...

God bless!

Spiritual Warfare... with who?

Prayers like these tend to be common in the church today:  "Lord please save my father."  "God, please deliver me from lust."  "Jesus, please take away my fear."

I've prayed many prayers like those, just substituting names or sins/struggles.  But its only been recently that God has been speaking to me that my battle isn't with God but with the enemy.  So often in spiritual warfare, rather than engaging the enemy I'll find myself looking up behind me at God and pleading with Him for help or deliverance.  And my prayers turn into warfare with God... pleading with Him for help or deliverance or salvation for a loved one.  What I don't realize is that God is already with me!  He wants my loved ones saved!  He wants me to walk in freedom!  He wants me to be strong in Him and to overcome the enemy!  To plead with Him over such things is basically to say that God is apathetic to such matters and that we must shake Him up with a ton of pleading to get His attention.  The truth is He has already given us authority.  He has already given us His promises.  He has already given us His Holy Spirit.  Rather than pleading with Him, we need to engage the enemy... praying prayers like these, "I command the enemy to get his hands off my father and I speak the light of God piercing through to my dad's soul."  "I reject every lustful thought and declare I have the mind of Christ.  I set my mind on things above and not on earthly things."  "I reject all fear and declare that God has not given me a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind!" 

2Corinthians 4:4 - The god of this age (Satan) has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God

2Corinthians 10:4-5 - The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world.  On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.  We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

God bless!

Field Day and Meek Room

Because of the swine flu scare, the children homes of Seoul decided against having their annual field day.  That was a big disappointment.  Our home decided to have our own field day for just our kids.  It was short, but the kids enjoyed it.  Here are a few picks...

Kids lined up

Jump rope

One dodgeball team

And the other... like rival gangs

Some of the older kids

Eun Suh with Kee Baek behind her

Dal Woo

Little Eun Ho receiving a prize for the kindergarten "MVP"

Dae Chul as the high school "MVP"

Afterwards we enjoyed some ja jja myun (black sauce noodles)... its a bit messy, as you can see by Jung Hyun here

Kyung Hwan

Jung Hyun again... I love it when the kids eat messy... especially when its not my responsibility to clean them up^^

Throwing Kyung Hwan around

New boy Young Bin

God bless!